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Button.

No. 2 43,534.- Patented June 28,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR ERIOSSON, OF SIOUX FALLS, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 243,534, dated June 28, 1881.

Application filed April 6, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known. that I, OSCAR ERIGSSON, of Sioux Falls, in the county of Minnehaha and Territory of Dakota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

Figure l is a plan view of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, taken through the line at m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the head of the button detached. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the outer clamping-plate and its hollow stein. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 6 is a. plan view of the inner clamping-plate.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the attachmentof buttons to garments or other articles, and to increase the strength and durability of the said attachment. I

I11 use thetubular stem of the serrated clam ping-disk is passed through the cloth, so that the disk presses against one side of the cloth. The other disk is then placed over the tubular stem and pressed against the opposite The tubular shank of the button-head is'then placed over the tubular stem, and the extremity of the said stem is headed or riveted down like an eyelet within the tubular shank or central cavityof the head, whereby both the disks are made to clamp the cloth firmly bet-ween them, and thus securely attach the button.

A represents a garment or other article to which the button is attached. The button is made in three parts-the head B, the outer clamping-disk,0,and the inner clam ping-disk, D. The head B is struck up or pressed out of sheetmetal, with a cylindrical recess in its mid- (116 part forming a tubular shank, E, having a small aperture through its lower end or bottom, as shown in Figs. 1, 2,and 3. The outer clamping-disk, (J, is struck up or pressed out of sheet metal, with a hollow or tubular stem, F, of such a size as to enter the aperture in the bottom of the tubular shank E, and of such a length as to pass thrcughthe material A, through the inner clamping-disk, D, and project through the aperture in the bottom of the tubular shank E into the cavity of the said shank E. The inner clamping-disk, D, is struck up or pressed out of. sheet metal, with an aperture, G, throughits center of such a size as to receive and fit upon the tubular stem F. The clamping-disks C D are slightly concaved upon their adjacent sides and have their edges serrated, as shown in Fig. 2, so that they will clamp the cloth or other material, A, firmly, and will be securely held from turning and slipping upon the said material. In applying the button to the material A, a hole is formed through the said material with a stiletto or other suitable instrument,and the tubular stem F of the clamping-disk O is passed through the said hole from the inner side of the material A. The clamping-disk D is then placed upon the tubular stem F, upon the outer side of the material A. The head B is then placed upon the tubular stem F and pressed down so that the end of the said stem F will project into the interior of the tubular shank E. The end of the tubular stem F is thenriveted or headed down upon the bottom of the tubular shank E, fast-- ening the three parts of the button firmly to each other and to the material A.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A button consisting of the head B and concaved disks 0 D, the head being provided with apertured shank E, the disk 0 with a tubular stem, F, and the disk D with a central aperture, Gr, whereby the goods are clamped on both sides, so as to relieve the edge of mate rial bordering on the hole of all strain, as shown and described.

OSCAR ERIGSSON.

Witnesses I E. O. KIMBERLEY, FRANK L. Boston. 

